RESULTS
Notables
-362 runners started
-Best-ever finish by a Saint at Oshkosh for Boedigheimer
-CSS lost by eight points to UWS, the closest margin of the season.
WINNECONNE, Wis. (
csssaints.com) – For the second straight race, freshman
Isaac Boedigheimer (Cloquet, Minn./Cloquet HS) paced the St. Scholastica men's cross country team to a 13
th place finish at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Kollege Town Sports Invitational on Saturday.
Results
Top Team Scores: 1. Augustana (Ill.)-97, 2. UW-Oshkosh-108, 3. Olivet Nazarene-116, 4. Williamette-134, 12. UW-Superior-318, 13. St. Scholastica-326
Race Winner: Austin Neura (Heidelberg)-25:23
Top Performances
Boedigheimer's 19
th place finish is the highest-ever at the UW-Oshkosh Invitational by a St. Scholastica men's runner, where the Saints have competed at for over a decade. His time was a season-best 26:21 and is the fifth-fastest 8k time in program history
Easton Foss (Pine City, Minn./Pine City HS) also eclipsed the previous best finish by a Saint, coming home in 40
th with a time of 26:52.
Cameron Pearson (Park Falls, Wis./Chequamegon HS) passed a team-high 14 runners in the final kilometer to be the third CSS finisher in a season-best time of 27:43, which was good enough for 99
th overall.
McEwan Rodefeld (Blaine, Minn./Irondale HS) scored for the Saints for the third straight race, finishing 132
nd overall with a season-best time of 28:10. He edged teammate
Izaak Juenemann (Eyota, Minn./Dover-Eyota HS) who was 133
rd with a personal-best time of 28:11 to complete the scoring for the Saints.
CSS finished only 10 points behind conference rival University of Wisconsin-Superior, which should make for an exciting conference championship in a couple of weeks.
Up Next
The Saints will compete for the Upper Midwest Athletic Conference (UMAC) Championship on Saturday, October 28 at Benson Golf Course and Benson, Minnesota. The race is scheduled for 1 p.m.
